Daniel S. Dickinson

Daniel Stevens Dickinson (11 September 1800-12 April 1866) was a US Senator from New York (D) from 30 November 1844 to 3 March 1851, succeeding Nathaniel P. Tallmadge and preceding Hamilton Fish.

Biography
Daniel Stevens Dickinson was born in Goshen, Connecticut in 1800, and his family moved to Guilford, Chenango County, New York in 1806. He became a lawyer in 1828, and he served as a postmaster and in the state legislature before serving in the US Senate from 1844 to 1851. He was a leader of the conservative Hunkers within the state's Democratic Party, and he opposed reconciliation with the liberal Barnburners after 1848. After leaving the Senate, he supported John C. Breckinridge for president in 1860, but he supported the Union during the American Civil War. From 1862 to 1863, he served as Attorney General of New York, and he served as a US attorney from 1865 until his death in 1866.